Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY • TOLD. Collision of Heavy Engines—Former Policeman Held for Evansville Murders—Heirs Are Found for Hermit’s Wealth—Girl Courts Death iu Ohio. As a Big Four and a Grand Trunk passenger train were slowly approaching the joint station at Granger the engines collided on the crossing. The Grand 1 runk engine was pushed over on its side and crashed through the bay window of the depot. The operator and two other men leaped from the window just in time to escape being crushed to death. The Big Four engine was derailed, but remained upright, and all four engine men escaped injury, though the Grand Trunk engineer went over with his engine. The. accident was due to hand signals which the engineers did not understand, the semaphore having been torn away by a snow plow. Hehl for Three Murders. Wilbur S. Sherwell, a former member of the Evansville police force, was indicted by the Vanderburg Comity grand jury on the charge of the murder of Lena Renner and Georgia Railey. who were choked to death in Evansville Nov. 11 last and their bodies thrown into a ditch. Three weeks ago Sherwell was indicted for the murder of Fanny Butler, a young mulatto woman, who was choked to death in May last. It was proved by several witnesses that Sherwell was on the beat of the Butler woman the night she met death. Several new witnesses swore they saw Sherwell with the Railey woman on the night she met death. Hermit's Heirs Are Found. Twenty years ago John 11. Grossman was struck and killed by a train at Bremen. After a number of years facts were brought to light showing that Grossman, who had lived a hermit life in California, had died possessed of a fortune estimated at $2,000,000, the result of mining speculations. He had made no disposition in life for the disposition of his estate, but search for the heirs in the last fifteen years has brought to light sixty of his kin scattered over Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, who will share in the disposition of the estate. Jumped Into the Ohio River. While suffering from melancholia. Miss Sallie Baxter, one of the most prominent young women in Jeffersonville, ran from her home, two blocks from the river, and walking out on the shore ice, plunged into the icy waters of the Ohio. Her brother saw her take the fatal jump. An hour later she was rescued, alive, but unconscious, and cannot recover. Woman Shoots a Thief. Mrs. Agnus Edwards of Kokomo saw a man enter the yard and commence to strip her clothesline. She was nlone in the house, but went after the thief with her husband's revolver, emptying the weapon on his retreating form. Blood on the snow showed the effectiveness of her act, but the wounded man escaped. Ftate News in Brief. Marion wants tbe C., R. & M. shops. Knox County will spend 8’20.000 for new bridges. William Carrigan, Brazil, was fatally Injured by failing slate. Mrs. W. W. Fox. Peru, swallowed a big dose of laudanum by mistake. Doctors saved her. Goshen people are kicking against th® Council appropriating $59,000 to build a new school house. Burglars ransacked the home of Rev, Father Schott, Evansville, securing considerable money. It is said that the American window glass factory will equip all its factories with blowing machines. Cora La Follettff, 16, Kokomo, wants a divorce from Merrill La Follette. She wants to return to school. Charles S. Hernly, New Castle, says tlie proposed New Castle and Pendleton electric line will be built. Dexter Gardner, police commissioner. Vincennes, is dying of gangrene following the amputation of a toe. Pennsylvania railroad voluntarily increased the wages of its Fort Wayne men, adding $5,000 to the pay roll. George J. Marott, Indianapolis, purchased the Kokomo street railway. He will build a line from Kokomo to laigansport. The planing mill, saw mill and office of the Greenfield Lumber and lee Company were burned, entailing a loss of $40,000. Joseph Buzzard, the desperado who shot his brother-in-law, Louis Cluster, near Logansport, was captured in Kokotuo after a desperate struggle. As Arthur Wagner, 24, entered th® store of Edward Hoffer at Cresco a shotgun leaning against tbe wall near the door fell. It was discharged by the jar, and young Wagner was mortally wounded. Police Commissioner* Dexter Gardner of Vincennes died from blood poisoning following the amputation of a toe. Tho too was crushed by a drunken passenger, who turned a car seat and struck Gardner’s foot. Mrs. Rebecco Evilsizer, who would have been 100 years old March 12, committed suicide at the home of her son near South Whitely. She choked herself to death by stuffing n large handkerchief down her throat. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shop strike at Washington has been declared off by the American Federation of Labor. The shops will Im? gradually reopened nnd most of the 600 idlers will soon be re-employed. John Griffith, n Michigan Central conductor, was killed near Michigan City. He fell from the back of his engine nnd was crushed under the cars of his train. John M. Spann, president of the Commercial Chib and a charter member of the Columbia Club, dropped dead hi tbe Union Station at Indianapolis, as lie was purchasing a ticket for Fort Wayne. Fire destroyed the large stock baru of Allie Powell at Wabash, cremating six bead of horse®. A matched team of Dr. Kern's, worth S4OO, and a pacing mare ot Powell's, valued at $5,000, were among them.